September

Blog Posts in September, 2010

A plastic solar panel ended the life of a four-year-old child in Gouverneur County, New York last month. Police have ruled the drowning an accident. Reports say that Thomas Keith Vanschaick, of Lisbon, NY, had been at a barbecue with his parents when the accident happened. The tragedy, which happened in an above-ground pool, occurred when the child wandered away from the main family group by ...

While celebrating South Korea's advance into the knock-out phase of the World Cup in Seoul, a 20-year-old college student drown in the nearby Han River. The Korean student, identified only by Lee, his last name, drown when he and four friends leaped into the Han River in Seoul to celebrate Korea's entry into the 16-team round after a 2-2 draw against Nigeria, reports say. Apparently, the student ...

While excercising in an LA Fitness swimming pool south of Houston, a 70-year-old woman was nearly drown , prompting a gym member to perform CPR and resuscitate her at the scene. After another swimmer saw the victim in distress, he pulled her from the water. Another gym member -- a registered nurse -- performed CPR on the victim, who was breathing but unconscious when Missouri City police arrived. ...

Montreal Police are reportedly investigating a drowning that occurred at the popular Mont Saint-Sauveur Water Park late last month. When several attendants began screaming when they noticed a body in the water, officials scrambled to the scene and discovered a nine-year-old boy, who was found unconscious in the park's wave pool. Although lifeguards dove in to try to save him, even performing CPR ...

Police in Hollywood, Florida are investigating the apparent child drowning of a toddler last month. The child, reported as two-year-old Valentino Llenderrozo, was found in a pool in Hollywood shortly before 5:30 p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon. Reports say Valentino's mother left him unattended in a rear room of their home while she worked outside. The mother, Mariana Parmisciano, 33, walked from the ...

Walter Dines, 18, of Glen Burnie, Md., jumped from the high basalt cliff at Gladstone's High Rocks Park to join friends in the water, at the urging of older adults on the rocks. He struggled to swim across the cold, rain-swollen river, and began having problems immediately, reports say. Witnesses said when he finally reached the side of the river and tried to pull himself out of the water, he fell ...

A tragedy was avoided last month when three visitors took swift action to save a drowning man's life at Osoyoos Lake, near Brookvale Campground in Vancouver, Canada last month. When a 39-year-old man began struggling to stay afloat, unable to swim back to shore, he eventually slipped beneath the surface and began to drown, reports say. Seeing the man in trouble, and then watching him slip beneath ...

Pressure for answers mounts in the drowning of a Harlem who died while on a school field trip. Criticism has increased against inexperienced chaperones involved in the trip, mainly three adults who accompanied 24 students on the bus to Long Beach, and who reportedly ignored signs that advised lifeguards were not on duty on that stretch of the beach. Reports say the students had travelled from ...

Reports say several brothers from the Caramegee family, of Tucson, AZ, were swimming at their apartment's pool, when one of the older children noticed one of the younger ones at the bottom of the pool. The older brother dove down and retrieved him. Yelling for help, the resident manager of the apartment complex, Ron Drumbore, who is CPR certified, immediately came to the 11-year-old's rescue. The ...